No sound with mplayer and this chip. Cannot find audio device /dev/dsp
(which really does not exist, or dsp1 or dsp2)/ Both DELLs use maestro3 driver.

Other linux users report similar problems with mplayer, alsa and intel 810 sound.
Both use ac97_codec. aplay will play wav files that mplayer will not.
Gxine plays DVDs with sound on here, OSS and XP sound also work.

I tried to use it CLI pointed at a URL for streaming MP3, like mplayer, and got noise instead of music. I can listen with Opera instead but cannot use a large collection of scripts I put together for mplayer and classical streaming mp3s. Is there any CLI MP3 player that works online besides mplayer?

ldd libflashplayer.so
reveals several missing libraries, which come with firefox (so that they are on the path
when you run firefox, or seamonkey, where flash works)

cd /usr/lib
ln -sf /mnt/home/firefox/lib* .

This symlinks the firefox libraries (unpacked outside of the file system)
to /usr/lib where they are found. It probably also updates some files in /usr/lib.

I could also have edited /etc/profile to include the firefox libraries on the library path.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (ahead of the files in /usr/lib since they are newer). The same libraries are found in Seamonkey 2.0.14 but are a bit older, April instead of September.

I exited and restarted Opera and no longer get a message about missing plugins.

Opera is already set to look in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins for the plugins (see pluginpath.ini).

Flash 9 requires far fewer libraries than Flash 10 so should have worked but it is outdated for Youtube, therefore I need to "update my plugin".

Mplayer may simply not work with this maestro3 alsa driver due to a bug in the kernel.
I will get used to using Opera instead of CLI for streaming audio.

DELL Inspiron 7000 and 8100 mplayer cannot find
audio device /dev/dsp so no sound. Both use maestro3
(I don't recall which ess chip - es1988 and others
use this ALSA driver for sound and modem).
I had to install xine to use for mp3 playing.

HP Pavilion n5415 uses the same driver, and mplayer works.
DELL and HP may use different ess chips.

Someone reported that ALSA driver has a bug starting in
kernel 2.6.24 but mplayer won't work on the DELLs in
pulp (2.6.21.7) or puppy with 2.6.30 kernel, for
their machine (with 00.0d.0 elspci -l output, whereas
the HP has 00.08.0 - did not check the DELLs yet)

Anyway, be prepared for mplayer not to play ALSA sound
with maestro3 driver, on certain laptops.

I have added lynx and links2 and nano to pulp.

Which battery monitor program do we have, and how do
I figure out what the other programs are linked with
the other icons at the top?

I installed both seamonkey (2.0.14) and Firefox 6
outside the file system - just unpack to /mnt/home
and run from the directory (cd /seamonkey then ./seamonkey).
Takes a bit longer to load (but pulp probably boots faster).

Seamonkey can be set to store its cache outside
the puppy/pulp file system (preferences, advanced, cache).
Does the save file load into memory? If not, this is
irrelevant.

My DELL Inspiron 8100 does not work with the Pulp battery monitor (apm) - I get a blank terminal window with no information in it.

I wrote a script /usr/local/bin/bat which is
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bat

My 8100 has no battery 0 so I used BAT1. You could have a bat0 and bat1.
(I think the floppy drive can theoretically be exchanged for another battery).

What file do I edit to replace the script that tries to display apm battery status when I left or riight click on the little picture of the battery at screen top (tray?). How about the ones at screen bottom?

Mplayer was working on my Compaq Presario 1200 AMD-K6 3D 375MHz laptop
then suddenly no longer worked (missing /dev/dsp as with the DELL).
Download xine for Puppy 4 and associated packages and xine works but
only as GUI. Is there a CLI xine usable with Pulp/Puppy 4.12?

DELL Inspiron 7000 and 8100 mplayer cannot find
audio device /dev/dsp so no sound. Both use maestro3
(I don't recall which ess chip - es1988 and others
use this ALSA driver for sound and modem).
I had to install xine to use for mp3 playing.

HP Pavilion n5415 uses the same driver, and mplayer works.
DELL and HP may use different ess chips.

Someone reported that ALSA driver has a bug starting in
kernel 2.6.24 but mplayer won't work on the DELLs in
pulp (2.6.21.7) or puppy with 2.6.30 kernel, for
their machine (with 00.0d.0 elspci -l output, whereas
the HP has 00.08.0 - did not check the DELLs yet)

Anyway, be prepared for mplayer not to play ALSA sound
with maestro3 driver, on certain laptops.

I have added lynx and links2 and nano to pulp.

Which battery monitor program do we have, and how do
I figure out what the other programs are linked with
the other icons at the top?

I installed both seamonkey (2.0.14) and Firefox 6
outside the file system - just unpack to /mnt/home
and run from the directory (cd /seamonkey then ./seamonkey).
Takes a bit longer to load (but pulp probably boots faster).

Seamonkey can be set to store its cache outside
the puppy/pulp file system (preferences, advanced, cache).
Does the save file load into memory? If not, this is
irrelevant.

I don' t have a new iso, just my save file for pulp which changes the original sfs file. I have made different changes to pulp on various laptops. Some of the files are outside the file system (browsers). It is rather a mess. Can you just follow my postings and make your own customized version? Pulp boots much faster than Puppy.

I was just able to unthrottle the speed in Puppy 4.3.1 using a cpu frequency tool which pulp does not have. Anyone know how to add it to pulp? DELL laptops have (had, anyway) a clever setup in which the laptop and the power supply had to recognize each other (OEM power supply required) and if either chip (or maybe wire) went bad, the computer speed is throttled to minimum. My D600 runs at 40% of maximum speed with pulp but 100% with puppy 4.3.1, now that I have reset the min to the max CPU speed.

Used to unthrottle speed of a DELL D600 with hardware
problem. See my posting related to the D600 and unthrottling.
Two modules and one script that echoes the correct cpu speeds
to some files in /sys/. Back from 600MHz to 1600MHz.
Windows requires some huge slow programs to accomplish the same.

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